So after a mere 24 + hours of travel, I arrived in Mombasa at 11:30 and at my hotel around 12 a.m. All in all, the flights weren't too bad. It's just a long haul with a bunch of transfers. So once I got here I was showed to my room....and in my haze, the only thing I really remember in walking was a sign that said "Please don't feed the monkeys". I have yet to see a monkey, but hopefully they'll wander by sometime this week.
My room is nice and clean--which is good since I spent about 30 minutes to 1 hour on the bathroom floor the day I arrived. I don't know if I ate something or what, but I was sweating up a storm and alternately hot and cold. It was brutal. Much like my experience on the floor of the Khartoum airport for those of you who know that story.
So after finally getting out of bed at 10 a.m. I wandered around looking for colleagues. I found a few and found out that a bunch of people were going snorkeling....so I promptly jumped on that bandwagon. We took off in a boat and headed out to a reef right off of the coast and near our hotel. We snorkeled for about half an hour and saw some great fish, coral, starfish, and other strange sea creatures. We then walked on a separate "reef" with lots of sea spiders (star fish), sea urchins, oysters, little crabs, etc. All in all, it was a great way to spend a few hours under the beautiful sun after 24 hours of travel. In the afternoon, we did a bit of work on the presentaiton we have later this week, and then a team meeting, followed by a nice dinner.
Today the work began---an all day meeting to start things off. The food, for a vegetarian, is a bit sketchy....as are opportunities to exercise.....And everyone's starting to get me really nervous for the hike up Kili next week.....
More to come,
Jane
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